It’s this technology — namely the genetically engineered seed that made sugar beets resistant to the Monsanto-produced weed-killer Roundup — that growers say is allowing them to sustain ...

Beets are commonly grown for their bulbous roots, but their tops can also be harvested for greens, and they are an excellent source of Vitamin A as well as calcium. Beet juice is sometimes used in ...

A standing-room only crowd of close to 200 gathered at ISBI to listen to living sugarbeet history presented by four men with ...

Sugar beet growers are advised to take a proactive weed management approach to help manage the growing threat from ...

Albert Adjesiwor, University of Idaho Extension Weed Specialist and Associate Professor, said a pigweed, known as Palmer ...

You can't pull them out.” Besides cooperation from Mother Nature, a good sugar beet crop also requires fertilizer, irrigation, and weed and pest control. Advances in machinery and seed genetics ...

The aim of this system was to transform sugar beet farming through a high-performance weed control approach that combines two key components: herbicide-tolerant KWS varieties and CONVISO® ONE ...

New technology can separate the fibers in the sugar beet pulp left over after sugar production. Part of the fiber can be used ...

The goal is to replace these with sugar beet pulp,” explains Serizawa ... For example, banana plants are a potentially abundant source of long cellulose stands similar to those found in Fibnano ...

Be sure to remove these as soon as the sun comes out again. Caring for sugar beets is not that difficult. Your plants will require consistent moisture during their growth, so just give them a good ...

without a better option to control weeds, Montana could lose as much as 68 percent of its average annual yield, costing growers $43 million in lost revenue. And other states growing sugar beets ...

British Sugar is celebrating a successful end to the sugar beet campaign in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, which this year celebrates its centenary ...